Vocabulary I
a large body of people united by common descent, history, and culture; inhabiting a particular country or territory?
What is a Nation?
A person who moves to a new place with the intention to stay there
What is a settler?
Poem about creating new structures or "bones."
What is the poem "new bones?"
Describes a state of blending; the quality of being mixed
What is Hybridity?
All three components needed for a complete sentence
what is a verb?
what is a complete though?
The action or act of imitating someone or something
What is Mimicry?
The industrialized capitalist countries of Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand
What is the First World?
Name of the short story where the ending has people flying towards the sky in a hospital
What is The Hospital Where?
A system or set of worldviews that uphold particular beliefs and patterns
What is Ideology?
Part of speech that describes actions or states of being
What is a verb?
Native; occurring naturally in a particular place
What does it mean to be Indigenous?
What is Indigeneity?
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly and emperor or empress
Self-described as "Black,lesbian, feminist, poet, warrior."
Who is Audre Lorde?
Element of culture that does the work of representing ideas, places, people, etc
Discipline dedicated to the study and use of written, spoken, and visual language
What is Rhetoric?
A person of mixed European and Black descent; a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage
What is Creole?
The quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share common cultural background or descent
What is Ethnicity?
Literary technique where an author substitutes a part for the whole
What is synecdoche?
Identification with (male) characters, (male) audiences, and the imagined masculine look of the camera
What is the Male Gaze?
Rhetorical appeal about the emotions and affect of the audience
What is pathos?
The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
What is an ethnography?
The process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.
What is Self-Determination?
One of the many central ideas of "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe"
What is the loss of humanity?
What is the loss of culture?
What is the loss of gender?
African-American sociologist who coined the term "double consciousness"
W.E.B. DuBois
Rhetorical fallacy where one grossly oversimplifies their opponent's position
What is the Strawman's Argument?